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NO. 849,244. PATBNTED ,4m-2,1907.

U. S. JES'SUP.

BAKE. APPLICATION FILED 0UT.30, 1906.

No. 849,244. f PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.l U.'S. JESSUP.

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N0. 849,244. Specification Vof.' Letters Patent. Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed October 30, 1906. Serial No. 341,223.

To al?, whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, URsA S. JEssUP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Provo, in the county of Fall River, State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rakes and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to rake-heads and teeth therefor.

It is the object of the invention to provide a head and teeth for a hand-rake in which the teeth will not only be held from dropping or being pulled out of the head, but in which they will be held absolutely against turning axially in their attaching means.

To these ends the invention consists of a rake-head having apertures or holes for the teeth, the lower half of which through the rake-head are made square, while the balance or upper half is made round, and rake-teeth provided with Shanks adapted to be extended through the said apertures and which are formed to correspond with the form of the apertures, the upper ends or rounded portions of the shanks being screw-threaded to adapt them to have tightening-nuts turned thereon.

To the foregoing ends the invention is shown as embodied in the hand or garden rake illustrated in the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in view of which it will first be described in detail with respect to its construction and mode of operation and then be pointed out in the appended claim.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the rake-head without teeth therein. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section in the plane 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a similar section showing a tooth in place in the head. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the rake complete.

Similar numerals of reference designate similar parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, 10 designates the rakehead, which may be composed of any suitable material and be of any size or length desired. For the sake of example merely, it may be supposed that in the present instance the inches long and two by two inches in crosssection. The said head is provided with apertures extending vertically through it at suitable intervals for the reception of the shanks 11 of the teeth 12. The lower halves 13 of the said apertures are made square, while the upper halves 14 are round, andthe Shanks l l of the teeth that extend into the said apertures are' correspondingly formedthat is, the upper part 14 is made round, is screw-threaded, and projects above the upper surface of the head, adapting it to receive a nut 15 thereon to draw the tooth tightly into its hole or aperture in the head.

The tooth is offset at the upper end of the squared part, forming a shoulder 16, and the hole in which it is fitted is correspondingly formed, so that when the nut is turned down on the reduced and screw-threadedround portion the shoulder on the tooth acts to tighten the latter in the body of the rake-head, and the squared portion of the shank prevents any tendency of the tooth to turn on its axis. The length of the rounded screw-threaded portion of the shank affords opportunity for tightening the shank in the rake-head when the nut wears down thereon or the shoulder 16 works its way upward. In other words, the length of the screw-threaded shank provide for taking up wear in `the tightening of the tooth in the body of the rake-head.

Holes 17 are formed in the face of the rakehead for the attachment of the handle 1S, which may be of any suitable form.

The teeth are preferably inclined forward slightly and are beveled inward on their backs from about the bottom of the rake-head to their points, as shown. Bymaking the rakehead substantially square or of rectangular form in cross-section and constructing and arranging the teeth as described I am enabled to provide a construction in which there is little liability of the hay catching upon the rake-head or hanging thereto, thus obstructing the free operation of the rake.

What is claimed as the invention is A rake comprising a head, consisting of a wood-bar, substantially square in cross-section and provided with vertical apertures through it, square in cross-section in the lower half of their distance, and round and reduced in size in the upper half, and rakehead is composed of wood, about sixteen teeth having shanks for insertion in said ap- IOO erture Which Shanks are square in cross-seo- In testimony whereof I affix my signature tion at thei' lower portions and round and in presence of two Witnesses.

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oiset or shoulder being forniDed at the upper URSA S' JESSUP' end of the squared part, and a nut turned on Witnesses: the upper screw-threaded portions to tighten ESTHER JEssUP, the tooth in the body of the head. BERTHA PAULsoN. n 

